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Human Evolution PPT Review Matching: Choose the phrase from the second column that best describes the term in the first column. _B_1.

Lucy

A. Stocky hominid species that lived in Europe and then went mysteriously extinct.

_C_2.

Australopithecus

B. Most complete and best-preserved hominid skeleton

_H_3.

Homo habilis

C. The earliest known human relative (evolved around 3 million years ago)

_F_4.

Homo erectus

D. Modern humans

_D__5.

Homo sapien

E. Order of mammals including monkeys, apes, and humans

_A_6.

Neanderthals

F. First hominid to have clearly walked upright

_G_7.

Hominids

G. Family of mammals including modern humans and their ancient relatives

_E_8.

Primates

H. First member of the Homo genus – evolved from Australopithecines 2 million years ago – known as “handy man”

9. Who are our closest living relatives in the primate world? _Chimps_ 10. What is the Class, Order, Family, Genus and species of modern day humans? Class: _Mammalia_ Order: _Primates_ Family: _Hominade_ Genus: _Homo_ Species: _Somo sapien_ 11. What is our scientific name and what does it mean? _Its Homo Sapien and it means wise man in latin_ 12. Describe the evolutionary history of hominids for the last six million years or so. (Hint: is it more bush like or a consecutive string of bipedal forms?)

Based on evidence that scientists and researchers have found 12 species of hominid species within a time span of 1.5 million years ago. They didn’t live at the same time and each species evolved to make the next. Evidence also shows that almost all of them have a common ancestor . 13. Which evolved first, large brains or upright walking? When do the fossils show upright walking evolving? Walking upright came before big brains in evolutionary history. As an example the most successful one was Lucy. 14. Which group evolved first, H. neanderthalensis or H. erectus? When did each live? Omo erectus 1.89 million and 143,000 years ago. 400,000 to 40,000 years ago. 15. Who was Homo floresiensis and what makes them such a curiosity? They were the smallest known species of homogeneous and island dwarfism makes it such a curiosity. 16. Habilis means “handy” in Latin. Explain why the early human H. habilis was given this name. Habili means handy in latin because a stone tool was found near the remains and is assumed to be evidence that these species had developed the ability to use stone to their advantage. 17. In what part of the world is it believed the ancestors to modern day humans lived? East africa...